TCS continues its fall as more investors loose confidence

TATA CONSULTANCY SERV LT performed worse than the broader market on Tuesday. It returned -0.36% to close at 1901.9. It is currently trading +37% above it's 52 week low of 1386.0 and is down only -15% from it's 52 week high.

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Buy-and-Hold investors in TCS experienced a maximum drawdown of -10.11% over the last three months. It returned +3.38% during this up trending period. There were no long signals during this period. However, the short signal was not profitable and lost investors -3.38%.

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TCS has been underperforming the NIFTY-50 index in recent time, after having outperformed till 1 Oct, 2018. Over the last 3 years and 1 month, TCS outperformed the NIFTY-50 index on 51% days.

During the last three months TCS was mostly profitable and delivered on average +0.07% per day. It's best return during this period (of +4.96%) was on Wednesday, 28 Nov, 2018. While it's worst loss in the same period (of -3.53%) was on Wednesday, 21 Nov, 2018. There was initially a bearish trend during this period which started on 18 Dec, 2018 and went on till 21 Dec, 2018. The trend delivered -5.02% losses to investors. This was followed by a bullish trend that started on 15 Jan, 2019 and ended on 21 Jan, 2019. This bullish trend delivered +5.42% to investors.

On monthly basis, TCS delivered profits in more months over the last year, than losses. TCS delivered profits in more months than NIFTY-50 index. TCS significantly outperformed NIFTY-50 index in Apr 2018, when it returned +21.73% compared to +6.56% returned by NIFTY-50 index during it's best month in the last one year - Jul 2018. TCS had a longer winning streak of profitable months than NIFTY-50 index. It went up in 4 straight months (from Jun 2018 to Sep 2018) during which period it delivered +23.42%. It is interesting to note that both TCS and NIFTY-50 index significantly outperform during months when quarterly/annual results are announced.

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
-- Albert Einstein

TCS is becoming less volatile overall. In comparison, the NIFTY-50 index is seeing a fall in volatility. During the last three months, there was a significant fall in TCS's volatility from 29 Oct, 2018 to 20 Dec, 2018. While there was a significant fall in the NIFTY-50 index's volatility from 31 Oct, 2018 to 5 Dec, 2018.

Advanced/professional short-term investors should note that TCS has significant positive skewness in it's return distribution. This indicates that investors can expect TCS to recover from drawdowns quickly. Which makes TCS a good candidate for investing on short-term bullish trends or even counter-trends hoping for a pull-back.

Investors trading in TCS derivatives at this moment can consider 'Long Strangle' options strategy to receive better risk-adjusted returns.

TCS has more chance of extreme outcomes than the NIFTY-50 index. Therefore, TCS must receive a lower allocation than NIFTY-50 in your portfolio. NIFTY-50 index usually has shorter drawdown period than TCS.

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